What is HTML?

- Before we go any further…I want to provide you with a brief…introduction to HTML itself,…just in case it's new to you.…If you already feel comfortable with HTML…feel free to skip ahead to the next video.…HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.…The Hyper part really just means better than,…so better than regular text.…The Markup aspect refers to the tagging…inside the language.…Here's an example of HTML tagging.…Tags are encapsulated inside of < and > signs…and they're closed with a /.…

So you can see the opening HTML tag at the top…and the closing HTML tag at the bottom.…There's also an opening and closing head tag,…where we'd store any metadata,…and there's also a body tag.…And that's where any content that's actually viewable…in the web browser is stored.…So here's another example of some HTML Source code.…This is focusing on content inside of the body tag.…So here we have a h1 tag…that says Big Headline.…The h1 is the biggest headline in HTML.…

And then there's a p tag, which denotes a paragraph.…And inside that paragraph there's a word boldly,…

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4/8/2015

Not only is HTML the language of the web, but it can also be used to create ebooks, mobile apps, and rich emails, and it can be embedded in other formats like DPS. This course will walk you through each of those options, help you decide which are right for your project, and show you best practices for successfully exporting your content and layouts to HTML so you can share it with the world. Author Justin Putney also introduces some inexpensive development options for mobile apps, and shows how to take your results from this course to the next level with CSS and JavaScript.